Etienne Quotes in The Beach (2000)
Etienne Quotes:
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Etienne: One kilometer.
Françoise: Two.
Etienne: Richard?
Richard: I dunno; I'm American.
Etienne: So?
Richard: I think in miles, not kilometers.
Etienne: Okay, so how many miles do you think it is?
Richard: I dunno, but it looks like a long way away.
-- Etienne -
Etienne: Oh fuck! Richard! Fuck!
Richard: What?
Etienne: I saw a fin!
Richard: What? Are you joking?
Etienne: No, no. A fin!
Richard: OK, a shark fin?
Etienne: I don't know! Just a fin! Over there, about a hundred meters.
Richard: Well, was it big?
Etienne: Yes.
Richard: Well, what the fuck do you expect me to do about it?
Etienne: Nothing! I just thought you should know!
Richard: Well, to be honest, Etienne, I'd rather you hadn't told me!
Etienne: I'm sorry!
Richard: Well, it's a bit fuckin' late now, isn't it?
-- Etienne -
Richard: Oh, God!
Etienne: Putain de merde!
Etienne: Well?
Richard: Well, what?
Etienne: How do we get down?
Richard: How do we get down? How am I supposed to know? Do I have to decide everything now?
Françoise: We'll jump.
Etienne: Fuck! You wanted to be in command, Richard.
Richard: I only took command, because you lost your nerve, French boy!
Etienne: Yeah, and look where you've taken us !
[Large shot on the waterfall]
-- Etienne -
Michael James: Could you tell me about your typical clientele?
Etienne: My typical clientele?
Michael James: Typical.
Etienne: All the people who are here now are typical clientele.
Michael James: Really?
Etienne: There is a man cheating on his wife in room Lola Montez. There is a woman cheating on her two husbands in Carlotta. Two lovers of indeterminate sex in Reine Margot. And two men cheating in Don Juan.
Michael James: Yes. Well, once might say the joint is jumping.
-- Etienne -
Solange: It's Jules and Jim!
Bill: Hello, Miss.
Etienne: Hello.
Delphine: You two again!
-- Etienne -
[first lines]
[in French, using English subtitles]
Bill: Set up here?
Etienne: OK.
Bill: OK.
-- Etienne -
[last lines]
[sung, in French, using English subtitles]
Bill, Etienne, Josette: [singing] We go from place to place, Across rivers and valleys. / They call us carnies, The road is our home base.
-- Etienne -
Yvonne Garnier: How do you treat the ladies?
Etienne: They aren't our ladies... not really.
Yvonne Garnier: Performers?
Etienne: The blonde does an Indian shimmy, the redhead a Chinese shimmy.
-- Etienne -
Etienne: We all seek our feminine ideal. He's not the only one.
-- Etienne -
Delphine, Solange: [sinigng] Passion
Bill, Etienne: Spirit
Delphine, Solange: Love
Bill, Etienne: Folly
Delphine, Solange: Genius
Bill, Etienne: Joy
Delphine, Solange: Love and happiness...
-- Etienne -
Yvonne Garnier: Delphine - my daughter.
Etienne: She's a peach.
Bill: So are you.
Yvonne Garnier: So I've been told.
-- Etienne -
Etienne, Bill: [singing] Fly away, turtledoves, Get along to your tropics, Since our eyes are not topics to make you melt with love,
Bill: Since our eyes
Etienne: Are not topics
Etienne, Bill: To make your melt with love, Go on then, my lovelies, Good sailing and good loving.
-- Etienne -
Solange: Well, we got applause.
Etienne: Not quite the Asian shimmy, but it's got charm.
Solange: Enough out of you!
Delphine: Go find your shimmiers, you boors!
-- Etienne -
Etienne: To liven up our stand at the fair, we thought - - Well, it was Bill's idea. We thought that maybe you could do a number - - something lively.
Solange: A number?
Delphine: They think we're strippers.
Solange: Obviously.
-- Etienne -
Bill: We're in love with you.
Delphine: What are they talking about?
Etienne: So we want to sleep with you.
Delphine, Solange: What?
Bill: It's normal when you're in love.
Delphine: That explains the ride?
Solange: We'll take the train. Ha-ha.
Etienne: You're not very accommodating.
-- Etienne -
Etienne: [singing] Sing of love
Bill: Or even hate
Bill, Etienne: Just make it bright
Solange: Sing today
Delphine: Dance tonight
Delphine, Solange: Sing of light
Etienne: Dance for joy
Bill: Sing of wind
Bill, Etienne: Sing of sun and rain. Fire us!
Delphine, Solange: Inspire us!
Bill, Etienne: Enchant and astonish us...
-- Etienne -
[last lines]
[last spoken lines, in French, using English subtitles]
Etienne: Hurry, they're waiting.
Delphine: Solange isn't here?
Etienne: Too bad.
Delphine: But we were to meet at noon.
Bill: It's nearly half past, get in!
Delphine: Wait. Here she comes!
Etienne: No, it's Josette.
Josette: Wait for me! Take me, I want to see Paris.
Etienne: Hop in.
-- Etienne
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